The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-26
ANOTHER FASHION.
The Wealthy More Prone to Corns
Than the Poor.


Artist who 0perated ON Bismarck's
Feet-An Imaginative Bride
Tho Political Crop.
s.For thirty years have been reliev-
ing people of corns and bunions," said
the oldest corn doctor in this city, land
during that time my best customers
have been lawyers, doctors. preachers
and actors"
"How long have you been in Brook
lynn"
"About ten years"
"Has not your profession come into
favor later than thirty years agoP'
''Well, so far as this country is con-
cerned it has. but you must remember,
my dear boy, that my practice among
the crowned heads of Europe COM
menced as early as have stated. In
1856 operated on Bismarck's feet and
tell you his corns were as big as his
head. A remarkable man that, even in
his corns; and here let me say, the
weather. or higher in station a person
is the better crop Of corns have they.
And of course those are the kind of
customers gentlemen in my profession
wish to see. When came to this coun-
try BARRIERS did all the business, and
many foot they have ruined by their
ignorance of the art of chiropody; but,
happily for the afflicted. we have driven
the BARRIERS out of that line of business,
and while they attend to their legiti-
mate calling we attend to ours, and l
must say In praise of this city that we
have all we can do with bad and good
feet"
''What is the cause of corn?'
lit comes by nature, like wart or
any other pimple. No greater mistake
was ever made than to say tight shoes
causes corns, but when the corn is
formed the pressure of the shoe causes
the pain. You can bet it never pro-
duces that nuisance of the foot, and my
reason for SO saying is that in my prac-
tice Ihaye had children of three years
brought to me for treatment Now it
is not natural to suppose that child
Of tender years is foot clad with
shoes so tight as to produce corns.
With them, as with older persons,
nature is theoriginator, providing corns
are not hereditary as consumption and
kindred diseases are in some families.
You don't mean to say that corns
can be handed down from sire to sonp'
II most certainly do, for they can be
reproduced like bad temper, good dis
position, or any special feature of the
face; and why not? II son or
daughter has long or short nose like
either of their parents, why can't they
have corns like their ma or pa has?
Is not this idea suggestive and reason
ablep 1t is an old maxim with students
that like begets like, and the offspring
would not be a clear image of the
parents unless it resembled them in one
way or another, corns included. 1t
may be said that corns are cut and
often eradicated. That may be true
though doubt it, but for sake Of argu-
ment we will admit the assertion.
What are we to say about boils, scurvy
and all other ills flesh is heir TOP Is it
not often the case that parents subject
to such denominations are to all appear
ances free from whatever it is, and yet
their immediate descendants at one
time or another suffer as they did. So
it is with corns, my boy, and don't you
forget it"
Coulditnot be possible for the tagging
on the sidewalks to bring on corns?'
"a lady Of seventy years asked me
that same question not long ago
answered her as have you in what ]
have already said, but she came back
at me by saying that in her young days
she was great dancer, and believed
that the hardness of the floor like that
of the tagging brought on the best
barometers in existence. Now, this old
lady had as many corns on her feet as
any person would desire to have. even
If they had them made to order, and
she could tell three days beforehand
when a storm was approaching. In .
Joking way said she should not be in
. hurry to get rid Of such useful COM
panions; but she answered that Virgins
could be depended on for weather. and
hoped that her faith il me = : chiro-